TRIAL TWO

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TRIAL

Once again, the investigations conclude -- though they're more ponderous this time, burdened by the number and knowledge of additional deaths, and the awareness that there's limited means of dealing with them -- and once again the ducks gather everyone at the back of the JojaMart along with Makima's wagon, Adela's quiet, the pile of evidence.

Everyone trundles into the loading bay, which isn't all that much livelier than before, penned in by stacks of shelves and crating; but at least it's functional, overly well-lit and there's tea to while away the time discussing murders and mayhem.

As the loading bay door slides closed, you're left with a wagonful of evidence, a double handful of murders and the knowledge that time is ticking down -- for everyone.

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[liberazoth]

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is vayne allowed to examine his hands, actually, since niles makes a decent point- actually why am i in the metatext when he can- ]

Um... Beelzebub. If ... you don't mind, can I see your hands, please?

[sorathvau]

[Wanting to get All This over with, he offers them out.]

[liberazoth]

[ listen he would like for this to go nowhere and for beelzebub to come up clean. as one of the two people who have mentioned they have amnesia he does not like either the idea of beelzebub faking memory issues or beelzebub genuinely having memory issues about having murdered someone? someones? he apparently? likes???.

anyway can we check the nailsies and stuff for all the standard gunk that might've gotten stuck there via involvement in a murder scene, let's start with that.

if those come up clean, he's moving on to check out the feeties/leggy situation... since mio says there doesn't seem to be drag marks. any dirt? blood? squished veggies? are you also a sleepwalker like keito. ]

[sorathvau]

[Beelzebub is compliant in letting Vayne inspect his hands, though, honestly? It's kind of weird for him.

It's a little hard to look under his nails since they're so dark, but it seems, upon close inspection...there's something dried underneath them.]

[liberazoth]

[


... ah. turns out niles may have had a point. he hates this, actually. ]

... Beelzebub. There's something ... dried, under your nails.

Do you remember how it got there...?

[sorathvau]

[Beelzebub examines his nails to check that this is true. Sure enough, there it is.]

I...don't.

[theotherww]

...Occam's razor.

[Unless anybody wants to have a wacky reveal.]

[liberazoth]

[ ...........

a breath, and pitched a little louder than normal, so it will carry (because he knows he's usually pretty quiet): ]

You ... don't normally have memory problems, do you?

[sorathvau]

[Beelzebub's demenor - otherwise composed, if shut off - grows more frantic.]

I...fell asleep. Once. When I woke up, they were all -

[Dead. Just like now.]

It was...it shouldn't be...

[faildeus]

Work your memory a little more, Beelzebub. What happened before you hit your head?

[sorathvau]

I remember...we were together. We were having fun. That's all...that's all I remember.

[faildeus]

[ faldeus is giving beelzebub quite the cold, impassive stare. ]

And what were you doing while "having fun"? Explain to me what that fun was, Beelzebub.

[sorathvau]

We ate, we talked, we...

[faildeus]

Beelzebub, Lord of the Flies, the demon representing the sin of Gluttony. I'm not sure how much of that refers to you specifically. Can't love become a type of gluttony? To want to consume someone that you care about?

[ christ alive, he's not made for this sort of thing. ]

You were talking with them. About Erika. About what else? What set you off, Beelzebub?

[sorathvau]

I-

[What does he remember? It was very clear, wasn't it? He knows how this works, after all. That's why he kept away from everyone - until he couldn't.]

I was happy with them. I wanted it to stay that way.

[faildeus]

And exactly how does murder help with that?

[moonblades]

...Beelzebub, did you mean what you told me the other week? About love?

[sorathvau]

That...?

[It feels so irrelevant now, but-]

Yes.

[moonblades]

[She wonders if it is relevant, after all, even if only in his love for his friends.]

Could that have been why...? Do you really not remember?

[don't trust your roommates or your friends, man.]

[sorathvau]

[...]

They say I'm cursed. That everyone who gets involved with me experiences misfortune, one by one.

[That, he's always known. That makes love so painful. He holds his head in his hand.]

...I didn't think he could reach me, here.

[liberazoth]

[ yeah okay, vayne is flinching away now, he's all yours, bad cop gang-

well no, he has one more thing to ask before backing off entirely and letting other people take the lead ]

You didn't want to do it though, did you?

[sorathvau]

I...

[There's nothing but sheer horror on his face as the reality dawns on him.]

I wouldn't want to hurt them.

[theotherww]

So what you said about never having blackouts before was a lie, wasn't it?

Everyone wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt when you acted so broken up over Beatrice, but you never stopped being the most likely culprit in my eyes.

[He stops attempting at the nickname. What's Beelzebub gonna do about it, attempt another murder?]

[sorathvau]

That time - I slept...it wasn't me.

[He sounds desperate to convince himself of it.]

It was Satan.

[theotherww]

Are you kidding me?

You're trying to use "The devil made me do it" as an excuse? Give me a damn break.